Fastening for meeting-rails of sashes



Pa'tentel AM ay 18, 1880.

` (N-o Model.)

- H. F. PRICE'.

Fastening for Meeting-Rails .oflSa,shes.

No..227,s33.

JUE, PHOTO-LITHDGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICEO HENHY E. PRICE, oE PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA.

FASTENING FOR MEETING-RAILS OF SASHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,833, dated May 18,1880. Application filed April 5, 1880. (No model.)

To all 'whom it 'may concern Be it known that I, HENRY FEN'PHEM l PRICE,of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Window-Fasteners, of which I hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and true description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part hereof'.

Of the drawings, Figure l is a View, in perspective, of a convenientembodiment of my invention as applied to the sashes of a window; Fig. 2,a transverse sectional elevation of a slightly-modified form of thesame, the standard screwing into its base-plate in lieu of beingprovided with the thumbscrew E of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of, reference indicate correspondin g parts.

My invention relates to that class of devices which is employedto'secure the sliding sashes of windows, transoms,and the like; and itsobject is the provision of such a device as will permit the opening'ofthe sash only to any desired extent short of its full throw withoutlrendering a full opening possible; to which end myinvention consists ina window-fastening of the character hereinafter set forth and claimed.

Many methods of mechanical construction may be resorted to in themanufacture of my device; but the form which I hereinafter describe Iconsider a very simple and cheap embodiment of my invention.

Referring tirst to the form of device shownv in Fig. l ofthe drawings, Ais an upright rod or standard erected from and rigidly secured to a-baSepIa-te, B, adapted to be attached to the upper surface of the lowercross-bar of an upper wi11dowsash, in the manner shown in the drawings.

C is a guard-plate or keeper, adapted to be secured, in the form shown,to the top surface of the upper cross-piece of the lower sash. Thekeeper is secured transversely to the cross-piece, and is provided atits outer ex:-

tremity with an orifice, D, through which the standard plays.

E is a thumb-nut or kindred device threaded upon the standard.

Such being the construction of myinvention, and the parts being in therelation represented in the drawings-that is to say, the keeper engagedwith the -standard and the thumb-nut `set at such point upon thestandard as Will correspond to the extent of opening which it is desiredthe window-sash shall take-it will be readily understood that eithersash can be shifted to just such extent as the contact of the keeper andthumb-nut in the Inovement of the sash will permit.

Both or either the upper or the lower sash can be moved, and the extentto which such movement is possible will be limited, as is obvious, bythe position of the thumb-nut upon the standard.

` In the practical operation of my invention I prefer to thread thestandard into its baseplate, and to secure the keeper and the baseplateto the crossbars of the sashes by means of screws.

The parts may be made of any suitable niaterial, but preferably ofeither iron or brass.

Fig. 2 of the drawings represents a modiiied i form of device in whichthe standard screws into the base-plate, in lieu of being provided withthe thumb-nut of the device of Fig. 1,. in place of which it is providedwith a fixed head.

The parts may be applied interchangeably to both sashes.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States- The combination, to form awindow-fastener of the class hereinbefore recited, of the standard A,connected with one sash, and provided near its free extremity with anadjusting thumb-nut, E, and of the guard-plate C, connected with theother sash, and provided with an orifice, D, through which the standardplays, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 2d day ofApril, A. D. 1880.

HENRY F. PRICE.

In presence of- J. BoNsALL TAYLOR, WM. G. STRAWPRTDGE.

